Socrates and the Three Little Pigs

by Tsuyoshi Mori and Mitsumasa Anno

Book Overview

Anyone can write a book about how to get rich. The bookstores are full of them. They rarely work, though, which isn't suprising since the people who write them rarely know much about money. But it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399213104
• ISBN13: 9780399213106
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Philomel Books
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

great children's book

Received in a timely manner and in the condition stated. ...pricey, but I was willing to pay.

A simple presentation of complex concepts.

Anno does an excellent job of introducing statistical combinations and permutation in a story that is suited to both young and senior students. Anno's color coding clearly shows the difference between permutations and combinations. The visuals are very helpful as supplementary material for intoducing these math concepts or as an aid to struggling students. In the story, Socrates' fat wife wants to be fed, but Socrates is lazy. He sits with his friend Plato and tries to calculate his best move. The pages are filled with pictures of the 3 pigs and the pigs' houses as these two thinkers consider all the possibilities.